Tag: livestreaming

Halloween's on 31 October? It starts a lot earlier than that in Fortnite. The game's 'Fortnitemares' celebration kicked off yesterday (21 October) with a haunted island, pumpkin rocket launchers, rideable witch brooms, a...

The timing may be awkward given the renewed DMCA takedown notices currently battering Twitch, but Amazon Music is stepping up its livestreaming activity, including with its sister platform. It’s launched a new weekly...

Music rightsholders are stepping up the pressure on Twitch to sign platform-wide music licensing deals, with another round of DMCA takedown notices for archived broadcasts and clips on Amazon’s live video service. Esports...

As the number of artists exploring livestreams at scale grows, so there's going to be a need for decent infrastructure around that. One example is being announced today, by live-tech firm Push. It's a tool called Push...

More evidence for the growing ambition of online concerts for bigger artists comes with Kylie Minogue's 'Infinite Disco' event on 7 November. It's the latest event from Driift, the company launched earlier this year by...

We reported earlier this month on plans for Billie Eilish's first livestream, the $30 'Where Do We Go? The Livestream' concert on 24 October. Startup Maestro is the technical partner, and it's been talking about a new...

The metadata debates around recorded music have been raging for as long as there's been a digital music industry. Time to apply them to music livestreams too? Startup OnNow·tv thinks so. It's the company founded earlier...

We wrote about livestreaming promotions firm Driift earlier this year (and again below) as a company spinning off from the management sector to work on online concerts. Now there's another firm coming out of the live production...

Dance label Defected Records did a great job earlier this year with its 'Virtual Festival' series of livestreams, raising $1.2m for the World Health Organization's Covid-19 relief fund over 10 weeks. Now it's coming back...

We first wrote about Japanese ticketing firm Zaiko in April 2019 when it raised its first round of seed funding, and again a year later with a deeper dive into how it had adapted towards ticketed livestreams in the first...

Scooter Braun, Troy Carter, Patreon CEO Jack Conte, actor Jared Leto and artist Kygo's Palm Crew Investments are among the investors in the latest ticketed livestreams startup, Moment House, which announced its $1.5m seed...

K-Pop stars BTS set an official world record earlier this year when they attracted more than 756,000 paying fans to their ‘Bang Bang Con’ livestreamed concert. Last weekend’s ‘Map of the Soul ON:E’ concerts outdid...